Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 707)

Chapter 49 Changing Motion Parameters 707
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11 Open the background clip on track V1, then click its Motion tab. Click the Opacity
parameter’s disclosure triangle, then set the opacity to 50 percent.
Now you have your completed composite: three clips layered, cropped, scaled, and
rotated, with edges feathered.
Creating Motion Effects in the Canvas
In the previous section, you learned about default motion parameters for clips and how
to adjust those settings in the Viewer using the Motion tab. The motion settings of
sequence clips can also be manipulated directly in the Canvas.
Choosing a Wireframe Mode
If you want to adjust a clip’s motion settings in the Canvas, the Canvas must be in
Image+Wireframe mode. When the Canvas is in Image+Wireframe mode, the currently
selected clip has a superimposed turquoise bounding box that shows its scale,
position, rotation, distortion, and cropping, if any are applied.
The background clip
now appears darker in
the Canvas.
Selected clip in
Image+Wireframe mode